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| Turkey: Bomber sentenced to nine life terms for deadly attack |
| 2009-01-04 |
| (AKI ) - A Turkish court on Friday sentenced an alleged Kurdish separatist to nine consecutive life terms in solitary confinement for a car bomb attack that killed seven people last year. Local media said Erdal Polat, who was 23 at the time of the attack, faced charges of attempting to ruin the unity and integrity of the state, murder and helping the outlawed separatist Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK). According to Turkish media, Polat was accused of preparing and detonating a car bomb, with 40 kilogrammes of explosives, near a bus carrying Turkish soldiers. The explosion, which also occurred near a university building, killed seven people -- including six high school students -- and injured 68 others. Polat confessed to being a member of the PKK and obtaining the car used in the bombing, but denied detonating the vehicle. The court sentenced five other people to six years and three months in jail each for helping Polat and for membership of the PKK. Six defendants were acquitted. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #4 Heh heh heh |
| Posted by: .5MT 2009-01-04 18:55 |
| #3 In India, you serve until you die then you reincarnate serve another term and so on. :-) |
| Posted by: JFM 2009-01-04 13:04 |
| #2 #1 Inn India being sentnced to nine life terms is far worse than in Turkey. :-) Posted by: JFM Being sentenced to more than 20 years is the same as a death sentence in Turkey, JFM. Turkish prisoners don't like the PKK any more than the rest of the country does. "Solitary" means a cramped, 4x6x6 cell, a squat hole in the corner, and being fed twice a day. The Turks have one of the most inhumane prison systems in the world. |
| Posted by: Old Patriot 2009-01-04 11:49 |
| #1 Inn India being sentnced to nine life terms is far worse than in Turkey. :-) |
| Posted by: JFM 2009-01-04 02:42 |